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A rolling First World War reviews thread.
Tweet Given the day that is in it, and since there are only whatever number of shopping days until Christmas, this post is a rolling review of First World War literature, in its broadest sense to include personal accounts, historical fiction (and everything in between), histories, cinema, documentary, drama, theatre and the endless poetry. Next [...] read our review » -
The Creative Class and Northern Ireland
Tweet As part of NICVA’s series of masterclasses from its Centre for Economic Empowerment project, there was a morning seminar on the topic of the “creative class” (as popularised by Richard Florida) and its applicability to Northern Ireland. The agenda was to: Explain Richard Florida’s idea of the “creative class” and the link between economic [...] read our review »
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Book launches: Everyday Life After the Irish Conflict and Belfast 400
Tweet Two books were launched tonight in Belfast. A reception was held at the City Hall to mark the book commissioned to mark the four hundredth anniversary of the city’s charter. I reviewed Belfast 400: People, Place and History (edited by Sean Connolly) back in December. It tells the story of the city that “emerged [...] read our review »
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Comment on Irish Justice Minister: “a tribute to how far we have come as a society”
on 9 May 2013 at 12:18 am
A true war hero would hardly be perturbed by such mundane matters back on civvy street.
But seriously, Mick, there is more to this issue than the mere dispensing of the milk of human kindness to a few poor oul’ sods.
I believe that number of these deserters eventually got into trouble in the British army and were duly punished. Has Britain apologized yet to them?
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Comment on Cleveland rescue: “I barbecued with this dude, we ate ribs and listened to salsa music…”
on 8 May 2013 at 9:51 pm
At least, the US judicial system knows how to deal with this type of perpetrator.
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Comment on Irish Justice Minister: “a tribute to how far we have come as a society”
on 8 May 2013 at 9:26 pm
You can say what you like about the old-stagers of long ago in the Dáil, but at least they would have had enough savvy to see through the agenda behind this bill and not to have allowed such a cheap stunt to be pulled on them.
I have it on good authority from someone who witnessed it first han that a lot of these “heroes” were simply ordinary Jack-the-Lads who had gotten in trouble in the barracks and who deserted and skidaddled over the border to escape the consequences.
And the Minister of Defence issues an official apology to them.
This is obviously a state which no longer takes itself seriously (not a “rogue state” but a “joke state”).
It is interesting to note that SF are on the same unhistoric, crummy bandwagon.
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Comment on Adams’s extended RTE interview on political murder turns the southern clock right back for Sinn Fein…
on 30 April 2013 at 10:36 pm
David Cameron said when refusing to apologize for the massacre in Amritsar (1,000 killed) that it would be wrong to ‘reach back’ into history.
How much time has to elapse before that aforementioned “wrong to reach back” statute of limitation applies?
And it was interesting to note today on the occasion of the Dutch coronation that the Dutch government apologized in 2011 for a (largely unpublicized) massacre of 430 villagers committed by them in Indonesia in 1947. Needless to say, the rule of law was not applied to the perpretrators. And the Dutch have a reputation for being progressively humanitarian.
So self-recrimination and coming clean has hardly got a strong tradition out there in the real world.
Why pretend otherwise and feign disappointment? Apart from the nearest and dearest of the victims involved, isn’t everyone else into it for the the propaganda and the political point-scoring.
Let’s be honest.
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Comment on Meath East: First tallies make FG early favourites…
on 28 March 2013 at 8:33 pm
With all due respect to the successful candidate but I suppose there was an element of a sympathy involved.
Having been to South America recently, I have now realized that when South American countries have over-indulged themselves in unsustainable and unfinanceable projects the only way out is a military junta.
In Ireland it is Fine Gael.
(This observation has been made in a disposition of complete objectivity.)
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Comment on And, Slugger is back…
on 11 February 2013 at 10:22 pm
As long as the old cerebral database doesn’t start unravelling everything is hunky dory.
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Comment on An Gnáthrud: Scéal i rap ó sean Bhéal Feirste..
on 18 January 2013 at 8:58 pm
Go deas. GRMA as é a chur ar ár súile.
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Comment on Martin McGuinness applies to become paid officer of the Crown…
on 31 December 2012 at 1:30 pm
Is it not high time for the London parliamentary system to grow up and dispense with all this 18th century nonsense and act like a mature parliament of a modern 21st century republic as you would find in Washington D.C., Berlin or Dublin?
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Comment on An English Guinness?
on 30 December 2012 at 11:16 pm
One quintessence seems to be: back in 1982 in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain you could get in more trouble for illegally sinkng a Guinness than legally sinking a Belgrano.
I wonder if Margaret has started worrying at this stage of the game about whether or not the guy guarding the Pearly Gates is a Guinness drinker.
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Comment on Finucane allegations – put up or shut up
on 15 December 2012 at 3:55 pm
It is only human that people (especially those who like to preach and trumpet on about the “rule of law”) will lash out angrily, go into denial, go on the defensive, indulge in whataboutery etc. when “their own crowd” get caught out in such a manner.
What puzzles me most, however, is the lack of concern amongst commentators in England as to state of health of the rule of law within their jurisdiction. Systematic state murder nestled in impunty (except for some of the fall guys at the end of the line) is hardly compatible with the rule of law.
Kevin Myers writes today: “Finucane Inquiry calls are futile: the British won’t reveal dirty tricks.” This is no doubt true. The question that the English public will have to face up to someday is whether they can have their cake and eat it.
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